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One of my clients has a reporting system that orders the data by a column that is a date. They wanted the sort to be ascending, but this places columns with a NULL value at the top followed by the data ascending. They wanted the NULL dates to appear at the bottom. To achieve this, […]

Since I’m carrying on a love affair with jQuery right now, I’m moving most of my customers to jQuery based plugins to simplify the JS code that I am currently using on their sites. One customer happens to make extensive use of the jQuery Jeditable plugin for dynamic/ajax based content updates. One issue I ran […]

This example is well out of date. Please don’t use it as is until I have a chance to update it. I recently did some work for one of my clients that involved securing some simple web forms. These forms were to request literature or request a call back, simple stuff. Incidentally they were getting […]

Most of my posts over the past few months have been of a technical nature and it’s time for this blog to officially find it’s place. From this point forward I will be focusing my writing efforts on PHP, jQuery, or whatever else I am working with at the time. My new personal writing will […]

No, I promise that I didn’t die or forget about this site. The reality is that in the past few weeks I’ve been swamped with freelance work, taking a much needed vacation, and working on some of my personal sites to improve them. I’ve got a few things lined for this site and I’ll try […]

Last week the wife and I went to dinner and went to see The Dark Knight. I don’t know that I would really call myself a huge fan of the Batman movies. I mean, sure, I enjoy them, but I’m not up to speed on the whole Batman saga. That said, I have always liked […]

I’ve really been slacking off on the whole blogging thing. You see, we went on vacation a few weeks back and I think I am still trying to catch up and recover from it. When my oldest was a baby, we tried to fly out to San Diego to stay with my relatives that had […]

Name: Bee Manufacturer: Bugaboo MSRP: $529 Now that I’ve gotten over the initial giddy feeling of this purchase, I am at a point where I can legitimately tell you about it. The Bee is the newest member of the Bugaboo family of products. It’s aimed at parents that live in the city and have reason […]

Last night’s draft was both expected and totally unexpected at the same time. On one hand, the first 3 picks being Rose, Beasley, and Mayo was what just about everyone expected. The rest of the draft field, however, kind of shook things up. Joe Alexander, one of my favorite prospects, went 8th to the Bucks. […]